Continuing with our efforts to evangelize Drupal and Open Source technologies across the state of Himachal Pradesh, Srijan team organised a Hello Drupal camp at the Government Post Graduate Degree College in Dharamshala on the 4th of February 2012. The camp was attended by more than 70 students of the BCA, PGDCA and MCA courses being offered by the College. The attendees also included the Vice Principal and Lectures of the Computer Science department of the College.
In an engaging session, which lasted for more than two hours, the participants learnt about the basics of website building, difference between static and dynamic websites, content management systems and Drupal. Varun, our Hello Drupal trainer, also introduced the students to the opportunities which exist in the open source world and especially the career opportunities associated with developing skills in Drupal. The introductory session was followed with hands on Drupal installation and website building sessions.
Hello Drupal training: Introductory session
Q & A Sessions
A BCA first year students lists differences between a Static and a Dynamic website
Srijan team helping participants with Drupal installation
Students were quite excited to be part of this training and were interested in knowing more about the technology. Our team would like to thank the faculty members of Dharamshala College for providing their support and participation in this workshop. We look forward to more such engaging sessions on topics such as Operating systems, System Analysis, Programming techniques, Database & Software engineering with the students of this campus in the days to come.
Next Saturday, we are visiting Dronacharya College, which has a beautiful campus offering educational services to students of rural areas close to a place called Rait.
About the Author: Divyanshu Puri, is working as a Management Intern with Srijan. He is pursuing an MBA degree with a major in Marketing from Himachal Pradesh University Business School at Shimla.